On biocultural diversity Book

	List of Illustrations	xii
	List of Tables	xiv
	Foreword	xvi
	Acknowledgments	xix
1.	Introduction: on the Interdependence of Biological and Cultural Diversity	1
Part 1	Language, Knowledge, and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Framework
2.	On the Meaning and Moral Imperative of Diversity	53
3.	Biodiversity and the Loss of Lineages	71
4.	Why Linguists Need Languages	82
5.	On the Coevolution of Cultural, Linguistic, and Biological Diversity	95
6.	Prospects for the Persistence of "Endemic" Cultural Systems of Traditional Environmental Knowledge: A Zapotec Example	118
7.	Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity	133
8.	Cultural Perceptions of Ecological Interactions: An "Endangered People's" Contribution to the Conservation of Biological and Linguistic Diversity	145
9.	The Vanishing Landscape of the Peten Maya Lowlands: People, Plants, Animals, Places, Words, and Spirits	157
10.	Dimensions of Attrition in Language Death	175
11.	Acculturation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge Loss Among the Piaroa of Venezuela: Demonstration of a Quantitative Method for the Empirical Study of Traditional Ecological Knowledge Change	190
12.	Measuring the Evolution and Devolution of Folk-Biological Knowledge	212
13.	Some Problems of Describing Linguistic and Ecological Knowledge	228
14.	Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: Some Implications for the Language Sciences	248
Part 2	Biocultural Diversity Persistence and Loss: Case Studies
15.	Biodiversity and Loss of Indigenous Languages and Knowledge in South America	265
16.	Aspects and Implications of Ecological Diversity in Forest Societies of the Brazilian Amazon	282
17.	Environment, Culture, and Siriono Plant Names	298
18.	The Endangered Languages of Africa: A Case Study from Botswana	311
19.	Threats to Indigenous Knowledge: A Case Study from Eastern Indonesia	325
20.	On the Value of Ecological Knowledge to the Kalam of Papua New Guinea: an Insider's View	343
21.	Wa Huya Ania AMA Vutti Yo'oriwa--the Wilderness World is Respected Greatly: Truth from the Yoeme Communities of the Sonoran Desert	358
22.	Resource Management in Amazonia: Caboclo and Ribereno Traditions	364
Part 3	Perpetuating the World's Biocultural Diversity: Agenda for Action
23.	Biological and Cultural Diversity: The Inextricable, Linked by Language and Politics	379
24.	Linguistic Human Rights in Education for Language Maintenance	397
25.	Language, Knowledge, and Indigenous Heritage Rights	412
26.	A Tape Documentation Project for Native Brazilian Languages	433
27.	The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity	446
28.	Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: Misguided Myths in the Maya Tropical Forest	462
29.	Biocultural Diversity and Local Power in Mexico: Challenging Globalization	472
30.	Language, Ethnobotanical Knowledge, and Tropical Public Health	489
31.	Indigenous Peoples and the Uses and Abuses of Ecotourism	503
32.	Protectors, Prospectors, and Pirates of Biological Resources	517
Part 4	A Vision for the Future, and a Plea
33.	Possibilities After Progress	533
34.	Silent no More: California Indians Reclaim Their Culture--and They Invite You to Listen	540
Appendix 1.	Code of Ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology (1998)	547
Appendix 2.	Statement of Mission--Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity	553
	Contributors	555
	Index	559